SMART Recovery utilizes ideas and techniques to help individuals change their lives from one that is self-destructive and unhappy to one that is constructive and satisfying. SMART Recovery is not a spin-off of Alcoholics Anonymous. SMART Recovery teaches common sense self-help procedures designed to empower you to abstain and to develop a more positive lifestyle.

SMART Recovery emphasizes:

(1) Enhancing motivation;

(2) Refusing to act on urges to use;

(3) Managing life’s problems in a sensible and effective way without substances; and